verberate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin verberatus, past participle of verberare (“to beat”), from verber (“a lash, a whip”).
Verb
editverberate (third-person singular simple present verberates, present participle verberating, simple past and past participle verberated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To hit; to beat; to strike
- a. 1610, unknown author, The Mirror for Magistrates:
- The sound […] rebounds again and verberates the skies.
- 1631, James Shirley, Love Tricks, act 3 scene 5:
- You shall be verberated, and reverberated, my exact piece of stolidity
- 1840, J. A. Simons, Meddlings with the Muse:
- Full well I heed the verberating chime,
Which comes like music on the ear to tell
It is the anticipated trysting time
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “verberate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editverberāte
Spanish
editVerb
editverberate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of verberar combined with te